Cops accused of police station rape

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Cops accused of police station rape

Raipur: In a shocking crime that has shaken Chhattisgarh's Dharmjaigarh town, two girls, including a minor, have alleged that they were raped by four policemen in the police station complex earlier this week.
A first information report (FIR) against the policemen was filed late on Thursday, police said, adding that the small town in Raigarh district, about 280 km from here, was tense.
The girls, who had been quiet since November 9 when the incident took place, mustered up the courage to speak out and were escorted by an angry mob when they went to file the complaint.
The girls were allegedly raped inside a house in the police station complex on the night of November 9 but were coerced into silence by threats of dire consequences if they spoke out, an official said.
"It's a very shameful incident. The guilty policemen will not be spared. I am rushing to Dharmjaigarh town to seek the help of the girls to identify the policemen who brought a slur on the police force," Rahul Sharma, superintendent of police, Raigarh, said.
He added that a police complaint had been filed late on Thursday against the four policemen who allegedly raped the two girls one by one.

Ruchika case: Rathore walks out of jail

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Ruchika case: Rathore walks out of jail

Ruchika molestation case: Rathore walks out of jail

CHANDIGARH: After spending close to six months behind bars, disgraced ex-Haryana DGP SPS Rathore serving a 18-month sentence in the Ruchika molestation case walked free on Friday, a day after the Supreme Court granted bail.

68-year-old Rathore, wearing a white shirt with the infamous smirk back on his face, was released from the high security Burail jail on the outskirts of the city and whisked away in a car after walking a short distance towards the main gate.

Rathore, who was received by his counsel-wife Abha and surrounded by police personnel, did not talk to a strong posse of waiting newsmen and whisked away in his red car.

The release came shortly after Abha fulfilled the legal formalities and furnished a bail bond of Rs one lakh in the court of chief judicial magistrate J S Sidhu.

Still and TV cameramen also jostled for vantage points as the mediamen waited outside the jail premises since morning

Rathore was in jail exactly for 170 days in barrack number Ten as 'B' class prisoner and worked as a librarian for which he earned around Rs 5,000.

The Supreme Court while granting Rathore bail on Thursday had also ordered that he would not leave the country without the prior permission of the CJM. Rathore had challenged his conviction and the enhanced sentence before the apex court.

It had also taken note of the fact that the CBI had closed two of the three fresh cases against him with the probe into the abetment to suicide charge still underway.

Ruchika, 14, a budding tennis player, had committed suicide three years after being molested by Rathore on August 12, 1990.

A sessions court had on May 25 this year increased Rathore's jail term from six months to one-and-a-half years while allowing CBI and the Ruchika Girhotra family's appeal for enhancement of the punishment.

Rathore has been lodged in Burail jail in Chandigarh since May 25 after his punishment was enhanced.

Punjab and Haryana High Court had on September 1 dismissed Rathore's appeal challenging his conviction and the sentence, saying his conduct as a top official was "shameful".

Cops accused of police station rape

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Cops accused of police station rape

Raipur: In a shocking crime that has shaken Chhattisgarh's Dharmjaigarh town, two girls, including a minor, have alleged that they were raped by four policemen in the police station complex earlier this week.
A first information report (FIR) against the policemen was filed late on Thursday, police said, adding that the small town in Raigarh district, about 280 km from here, was tense.
The girls, who had been quiet since November 9 when the incident took place, mustered up the courage to speak out and were escorted by an angry mob when they went to file the complaint.
The girls were allegedly raped inside a house in the police station complex on the night of November 9 but were coerced into silence by threats of dire consequences if they spoke out, an official said.
"It's a very shameful incident. The guilty policemen will not be spared. I am rushing to Dharmjaigarh town to seek the help of the girls to identify the policemen who brought a slur on the police force," Rahul Sharma, superintendent of police, Raigarh, said.
He added that a police complaint had been filed late on Thursday against the four policemen who allegedly raped the two girls one by one.

The FBI harassed U.S. peace activists

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The FBI harassed U.S. peace activists

In a massive and coordinated action in different cities in the Midwest of this country, the FBI raided the homes of at least six activists in Minneapolis and 3 in Chicago on Friday, the 24th of September.

In most cases, groups of between 20 and 30 FBI special agents raided homes with search warrants indicating that they are part of an investigation into the alleged involvement of these activists with groups deemed as "terrorist" by the administration of Barack Obama, specifically Hezbollah, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the socialist organization "Freedom Road." For more than 14 hours, between 100 and 120 boxes of personal belongings, documents, computers and electronic devices of those affected filled many cases.

There have been no arrests, but search warrants are for an investigation on a "Grand Jury" on the 5th of October. This so-called legal framework is more like the Spanish Inquisition that exists in America, where during the hearings the lawyers do not even have the opportunity to accompany their clients and where the defendant can be sentenced to between 10 and 15 years of imprisonment simply by inconsistency between their responses and any evidence that has been confiscated during the raids.

Many activists in the city of Chicago and Minneapolis indicated that the raids continue and say that they may spread to cities on the U.S. west coast. Activists such as Tom Burke, Mick Kelly, Joe Iosbaker, Stephanie Weiner and Hatem Abudayyeh, who also have been strong supporters of the Bolivarian Revolution in this part of the U.S., are the most prominent figures who are the subject of intimidation by the FBI including left activists fighting for peace in the Middle East and Latin America.

The aforementioned activists have excellent records of progressive social struggle and are respected by the entire progressive community in the country's Midwest. "There is no way to be involved in illegal acts against the U.S. ... it is impossible to do anything illegal because they know that they are always being watched by the security services simply because they are socialists" stated one of the activists present at the Iosbaker house where they showed their solidarity during the raid on Friday.

Yesterday in Chicago a press conference was held by the defense lawyers and some of those affected. It was held at the Puerto Rican Cultural Center where Melinda Power is the lawyer who has assumed the defense of persons in this city. Everything seems to indicate that it could generate an adverse outcome to that expected by the U.S. authorities. Some activists suggest, "noting that instead of general panic and fear among those affected, it seems to be more powerful in activating coordination between the different factions of the left in the U.S." They are eventually ending up realizing that the administration of Barack Obama may be even more reactionary than the former President George Bush, because an operation of this nature can be initiated only with the consent of the White House and people who control the Department of Justice and the judicial system.

Activist groups also friends of the victims question whether this attack could also aim to deepen the media onslaught launched daily from this country against Venezuela which has intensified in recent days, just hours before the parliamentary elections, whose results are not liked by right wing forces in this country and its friends in Venezuela.

In the next few hours new elements will probably appear that will more accurately gauge public opinion about the direction to take. This deplorable incident brings to mind the McCarthy era and its implications for the mobilization of social groups of the left in the USA.

Cop beats 60-year-old to death in Bihar

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Cop beats 60-year-old to death in Bihar

MADHUBANI: A woman was beaten to death allegedly by a police officer in this Bihar district on Wednesday for failing to provide information about the whereabouts of her son.

Madhubani SP Saurabh Kumar told reporters that there was formal complaint that 60-year-old Bhulli Devi was punched and kicked by station house officer Laxman Prasad at Narkatiya village and died on the spot.

Bhulla Devi's husband, who was present at the spot, could not put up any resistance and later filed an FIR.
Her son, for whom the police is on the look out for preventive detention in view of the coming